24.4.10

21.4.10

In my new stash of old hankies I found a vintage chestnutone - and since the chestnut trees are just unfoldingtheir leaves, and since the moths have just begun theirsilent destruction work inside the trunks, too - I decomposeda part of it into small squares...

Attaching them with a thread knot at the corners toanother hankie, writing parts of "Der Abend" by Georg Traklon the back (yes, I said I won´t use other people´s poemsany more, but, well...)

17.4.10

15.4.10

A while back I made three mixed-media pieceswith pages from an old issue of "Never Cry Wolf",a book by a man named Farley Mowat who livedamong the wolves in Canada in the Sixties,and blotch-drawing creatures, starting threemore - but never finishing them until now...

I grouped them together as one big picture...

And I made two small folding booklets, with blotch- drawings on fabric...

They tell stories about a big brown bird and it´s songin a p-oe-tree...

And about a relaxed pre-summer day, I guess,where "there was a stir in the air, and a sense ofexpectant gaiety..."

"The right time is ANY time that one is stillso lucky as to have"

(Henry James, born April 15, 1843)

14.4.10

It´s a little Creature, wondering whether it´sa doll or a freak or a pincushion or what...?

And, since the outdoor season just started, a newgeneration of Berlin park ranger...He takes his duties very seriously, he disapprovesof all kinds of hectic and unsuitable behaviour inhis scope, and he doesn´t hesitate to brandish hisstick - so watch out...

12.4.10

The other day a friend gave me a lot of old hankiesand other linens, so I´m going to make some light, white,pre-summer things in the weeks to come I think - becauseit´s pleasant to deal with them - and to counterbalancethe ongoing black thread mood I´m in, which is still groping to express itself in a way that feels right...So here´s a hankie nine-patch with unconnectingpatches (one is fake, anyways...) and a little blackthread eye stitching...

In machine stitch, it bears the statement: yes, it´sa nine-patch...

10.4.10

9.4.10

Wish I could. Always on the jump, in "real life" -or so it feels, at least...

Finished...Another one that got it´s direction from a scrapwith some hand written letters (as the "would" fromthe last post...) - I can´t even remember why I cutout single words from pieces of fabric I had writtensome poems on somewhen (but should do it againperhaps, they make great prompts...) - here itwas "just sit" which fell into my hands when Igathered potential scraps for this piece (the ideawas to let four islands, two round ones and twosquares, float in a pond of ripples)...

That and the ripples made me think of a traditionaljapanese garden, and I added "Just now"...

Then I dismissed the "Just sit" scrap and embroideredthat too instead (bit hard to see here, it´s whiteon white)...And it´s in the shop...

7.4.10

Funny how one thing can lead to another.This little quilt I made yesterday, after...

I first found a small greenish scrap, not knowing what to do with it, but thinking I might want todo something with it... - then I found a singlehand written "would" - which made me think of JohnnyCash´s "Would you lay with me in a field of stone..."

As the greenish scrap resembles a sprout andnot a stone, things developed towards "Would yougrow with me..." - it´s a simple thing, but niceI think - a simple pleasure...